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John Russell

John Russell

John Russell was an American writer and screenwriter. Russell wrote for the New York City News Association news agency, and then for the New York Tribune. He wrote the screenplay for Beau Geste and several other films. As author he was best known for his short stories, originally written for a wide range of magazines and newspapers, and then collected in books. He also wrote The Society Wolf, published in 1910, which was written under the pen name Luke Thrice.

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Shawna Yang Ryan

Shawna Yang Ryan
SHAWNA YANG RYAN is a Taiwanese American author and formerly a creative writing professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her works include the novels Water Ghosts and Green Island, which won an American Book Award and the Association for Asian American Studies Best Book Award. She is now a book coach and editor living in Northern California. You can find her at www.themanuscriptdoula.com.

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Antoinette Rydyr

Antoinette Rydyr

Antoinette Rydyr is a writer and artist working in the genres of horror, science-fiction and fantasy usually bent into a surrealist and satirical angle and injected with a healthy dose of experimentalism. She creates in a variety of mediums including prose fiction, illustration, screenplays, comic books and graphic novels. Her collaborative series of steampunk western novels, “Weird Wild West” debuted in 2018, and her puzzling picture book, “Mister Idealize Leaves the Building” was published in 2021. Discover more strange delights at www.weirdwildart.com

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Jessica Amanda Salmonson

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Jessica Amanda Salmonson is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, ReaderCon Certificate, and Lambda Award, author of THE DISFAVORED HERO and other novels, THE DEATH SONNETS and other poetry collections, and THE DEEP MUSEUM and other short story collections. Forthcoming – a giant omnibus of her works will appear from the extravagantly cool Centipede Press consisting of her Dell Books novel ANTHONY SHRIEK, a number of poems, and her Ace Books collection A SILVER THREAD OF MADNESS plus enough new and uncollected material to equal a third book in one huge volume. Her next poetry collection PETS GIVEN IN EVIDENCE OF OLD ENGLISH WITCHCRAFT AND OTHER BEWITCHED BEINGS will be issued this coming year by The Sidecar Preservation Society to coincide with Diversicon where she will be Guest of Honor. She’s presently working on a small collection THE BLIND AVIATRIX: Dream Life and Real Life, too odd for commercial publishers but she can’t help it she has to write it.

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Peter Adam Salomon

Peter Adam Salomon

Peter Adam Salomon’s second and third novels, All Those Broken Angels and Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds, were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Young Adult fiction. His first two novels were named a ‘Book All Young Georgians Should Read’ by The Georgia Center for The Book. He founded both National Dark Poetry Day (Oct. 7) and the annual international Horror Poetry Showcase for the Horror Writers Association. His poem ‘Electricity and Language and Me’ was performed by The Radiophonic Workshop on BBC Radio 6. Two of his poetry collections were nominated for the Elgin Award and his poem ‘Psalm’ was nominated for the Dwarf Star Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. In addition, he was the Editor for the first books of poetry released by the Horror Writers Association: Horror Poetry Showcase Volumes I and II. He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the Science Fiction Poetry Association, the International Thriller Writers, and The Authors Guild.

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Patrick Samphire

Patrick Samphire started writing when he was fourteen years old and thought it would be a good way of getting out of English lessons. It didn’t work, but he kept on writing anyway. He has lived in Zambia, Guyana, Austria and England. He now lives with his wife and two children in Wales, U.K. He has published almost twenty short stories. He has published two novels, SECRETS OF THE DRAGON TOMB and THE EMPEROR OF MARS.

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